
THE 

ARLINGTON 
PAGEANT 







JUNE: 1913 



The Spirit of the Pageant 

THE SPIRIT that dominates 
the Arlington Pageant is one 
of reverence for the past history of 
the town, and of thanksgiving for 
its well-being and prosperity. The 
Pageant is designed as a public cele- 
bration in connection with the dedi- 
cation of the new Town Hall — the 
munificent gift of the late Winfield 
Robbins — the erection of which has 
been an act of devotion and loyalty 
on the part of the Misses Robbins. 



DESIGNED AND PRINTED BY 
THE STETSON PRESS, BOSTON 



The 

Arlington Pageant 

To Commemorate 

The Dedication of the 
New Town Hall 

Written and Planned by 

Mrs. Cyrus Edwin Dallin 

Author of "The Pageant of Education" 
and 

"The Pageant of Progress 



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Arlington, Mass. 

1913 






Directors of the Pageant 



AUTHOR OF THE PAGEANT, Mrs. Cyrus E. Dallin 
MISTRESS OF THE PAGEANT, Mrs. Laura Palmer Ingalls 

Designer and director of the dances in the Prelude. 

ASSISTANT, Miss Alice Homer 

Director of the folk dances, except the Vineyard Dance taught by Miss 
Heloise Hunt. 

ARTIST DIRECTOR, Mr. H. Winthrop Peirce 

Director of the costuming and designer of the costumes and attributes for 
the symbolic and mythical characters, also designer of the stage setting. 

ASSISTANT, Mr. Daniel Brewster 
Master of Properties. 

MUSIC DIRECTOR, Mr. John Densmore 

Choral music arranged, composed and directed by Mr. Densmore. 
Orchestral music arranged by Mr. Albert M. Kanrich, leader of Kanrich's 
Orchestra. 



Copyright, 191$, by Mrs. Cjtus Edwin Dallin 



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Synopsis of the Pageant 



THE PAGEANT will begin with a procession in which 
all the pageanters, numbering between five and six hun- 
dred, will participate. After the procession has passed 
before the spectators, the two parts of the Pageant will be en- 
acted. As Arlington is an agricultural center and has been noted 
for years for its market gardens, the elements in the Pageant 
were selected because they are symbolically related to the two 
great events of agricultural life — seed-sowing and harvest. Part I 
is based on the story of Ceres and Proserpine, and Part II con- 
sists of a series of historical episodes and interludes connected 
in some way with the history of the town. 



Order of the Procession 

PARTI 

The Prelude or the Sowing of the Seeds of Civilization 

Group 1. Spirit of Pageantry : Genius Group 7. The attendants of Ceres : 

of Pageantry, Genius of Locality, Flora, Pomona, Copia, Themis, the 

Romance, History, Civic Co-opera- three Horse, and Industry, 

tion, Patriotism. Group 8. Wood Nymphs and Water 

Group 2. Classic Heralds, who an- Nymphs, with Pan and Satyrs, 

nounce all symbolic groups. Group 9. Flower Maidens. 

Group 8. Husbandry : Husbandman Group 10. The Daughters of Celeus 

with plough drawn by oxen ; the and the Fall and Winter Months. 

Group 11. The Seed-Sowers, Tripto- 
Group 4. Children of the Hours. lemus and the Winds, with the Anal 

Group 5. The Hours. Brothers, who bless the seed, and 

Group 6. Ceres, goddess of fields and Summer, who brings it to flower, 

harvest. Proserpine, her daughter, Group 12. The Worshippers of Ceres : 
who was carried off" by Pluto to be Greek maidens ; Roman peasants ; 

his queen. Roman harvest dancers. 

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PART II 

The Transplanting and Flowering of Old- World Seed 

in the New 



Introductory Group 1 . Spirit of Prog- 
ress: Genius of Progress, Science, 
Invention, Discovery, Dissemina- 
tion of Knowledge, Emancipation. 

Introductory Group 2. Mediaeval 
Heralds, who announce historical 
groups. 

EPISODE I 

DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF 
AMERICA 

Group 1. The Norse Discoverers of 
Vinland. 

Group 2. Norse Dancers for Reaping 
the Flax. 

Group 3. Columbus, his Companions, 
Indians. 

Group 4. English Explorers. 

Group 5. Morris Dancers for Bean 
Setting. 

Group 6. French Pioneers, Indians. 

Group 7. French Dancers for Vine- 
yard Dance and Harvest Bite. 

EPISODE II 

THE PLANTING OF MASSACHUSETTS 

Group 1. Mayflower Pilgrims, Samo- 

set, Massasoit, Indians. 
Group 2. Merrymount Settlers. 
Group 3. Puritans of Massachusetts 

Bay Colony. 

EPISODE III 

THE PLANTING OF MENOTOMY 

Group 1. Indian Women for Corn- 
Planting and Indian Men for the 
Ceremony following it. 

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Group 2. Squa-Sachem, Representa- 
tives of the Town Governments, 
Early Settlers. 

EPISODE IV 

MENOTOMY ON THE 19TH OF APRIL, 
1775 

Group 1 . Paul Revere and Farmers. 

Group 2. British Grenadiers under 
Lieutenant-Colonel Smith. 

Group 3. Minute Men under Benja- 
min Locke, Wives, and Children. 

Group 4. British Reinforcements un- 
der Lord Percy, Nabby Blackington 
and her Cow. 

Group 5. Exempts," British Sol- 
diers with Supply Wagons. 

EPISODE V 

INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF 
WEST CAMBRIDGE, 1807 

Group 1. Bearers of the Town Seal. 

Group 2. Town of West Cambridge, 
Lares and Penates bearing a Can- 
opy. 

Group 3. Attendants of the Town, 
Prosperity and the Civic Virtues — 
Justice, Temperance, Fortitude, 
Truth, Faith, Hope, Charity, Pru- 
dence, Loyalty, Maternal Love, In- 
dustry, Civic Love. 

EPISODE VI 

THE VISIT OF LAFAYETTE, 1824 

Group 1. Lafayette with his Trav- 
elling Companions in the Coach of 
Governor Eustis. 

Group 2. Spectators. 



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EPISODE VII 

CHANGE OF NAME TO ARLINGTON 

Group 1. Procession of 1867. 
Group 2. Spectators. 

EPISODE VIII 

THE TOWN'S PART IN NATIONAL LIFE 

Group 1. Army Nurses. 
Group 2. Civil War Veterans. 

EPISODE IX 

THE FLOWERING OF THE TOWN LIFE AND 
EXPERIENCE 



EPISODE X 

SYMBOLIC PRESENTATION OF THE 
TOWN HALL 

EPISODE XI 

TABLEAU OF ALL THE PAGEANTERS 

EPISODE XII 

HYMN OF THANKSGIVING 



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Program of the Music 



Procession 



Swedish Coronation March 
Queen of Sheba 
March from Suite B 
Entrance of Boyar . 
Rat-Charmer of Hamelin 



S wends en 

. Gounod 

Lochner 

Halvorsen 

Nesler 



Prelude 

Trumpets 

Ballet from Armida ...... Gluck 

The Hail Chorus \ the Parting of Ceres and Proserpine and the 
Chant of Arval Brothers, composed for Pageant by John Densmore. 
Words by the author of the Pageant. 

Ballet from Queen of Sheba ..... Gounod 
Valse Caprice ...... Rubinstein 

Ballet Luigini 

Lament of Ceres. Jocelyn-Berceuse . . . Godard 

Spring Song ........ Gounod 

Adagietti Dizel 

Nutcracker Suite ...... Tschaikowsky 

Ballet from Faust ....... Gounod 

Overture Stradella ....... Flotow 



The music for Part II of the Pageant has been selected from Gounod, 
Lochner, Tschaikowsky, Halvorsen, Nesler, Flotow, Luigini, Rubin- 
stein, Gluck, Coleridge-Taylor, and Godard. 



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Pageanters in the Prelude 

Spirit of Pageantry — Rough Riders 

Mrs. Carolyn B. Reed Miss Marion Churchill Miss Katherine W. Sawyer 

Herbert W. Reed James A. Bailey, Jr. 

Miss Mary C. Hardy 



David H. Buttrick 



Classic Heralds 

Warren L. Illsley 
Lawrence King 



Charles F. H. Allen 



Husbandman with Plough and Oxen : Sower and Reaper 

Howard Russell John A. Easton 



Mrs. Winthrop Pattee 
Mrs. J. A. Ferguson 
Mrs. Herbert Allen 
Miss Genevieve Carens 
Miss Edith Philpott 
Miss Lida Chick 
Miss Frances Ahern 
Miss Helen Hill 



The Hours 

Miss Helen Kennedy 
Miss Charlotte Kennedy 
Miss Hazel Gray 
W. H. Gleason 
Howard L. Bennett 
George W. Brooks 
Hobert Cousens 
William Cook 



Ward Chick 
W. L. Baker 
E. H. Sargent 
W. W. Wyman 
O. J. King 
Forest Young 
W. R. Anderton 
Miss Edith McClare 



Constance Dodge 
Dorothy Crosby 
Helen Foster 
Eleanor Hyde 
Helen Stokes 



Children of the Hours 

Linda Woodworth 
Virginia Wellington 
Margery Dick 
Margery Pitcher 
Miriam Hendricks 
Evelyn Swan 



Dolores Osborne 
Marion Davis 
Caroline Bennett 
Helen Snow 
Dorothea Johnson 



Ceres and Proserpine 

Mrs. E. N. Blake Mrs. J. F. Scully 



Mrs. Charles Devereaux 
Mrs. John Dick 
Mrs. Herbert Mead 



Mrs. Murry Walcott 



Attendants of Ceres 

Mrs. John Sawyer 
Mrs. George Stokes 
Miss May Donahue 



Miss Grace Parker 
Miss Marguerite Shedd 
John R. Hendrick 



Daughters of Celeus 

Mrs. Ralph Smith 
Mrs. F. Chase 



Mrs. O. L. Pitcher 
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Dryads and Naiads 



Mrs. Robert C. Bird 
Mrs. Harrison G. Bourne 
Mrs. Fred H. Curry 
Mrs. Gorham H. Davis 
Mrs. Harold A. Gleason 
Mrs. Harold E. Ring 
Mrs. Frederick A. Sawyer 
Mrs. Albert D. Woodworth 
Mrs. George W. Yale 



Mrs. Harlan Reycroft 
Miss Gladys Richardson 
Miss Pauline Russell 
Miss Vida Damon 
Mrs. Thos. M. Dowsley 
Mrs. Fred Holdsworth 
Miss Clara Livingstone 
Mrs. H. F. Kaulbeck 
Mrs. Harry H. Stinson 



Miss Dorothy Bacon 
Miss Margaret Billings 
Miss Ruth Morton 
Miss Ethel Egleston 
Miss Louise Bateman 



Flower Maidens 

Miss Phoebe Hyatt 
Miss Katherine Eberhart 
Miss Helen Dowsley 
Miss Beatrice Moseley 
Miss Gladys Chamberlain 



Miss Harriet Bullard 
Miss Dorothy Billings 
Miss Margaret Munch 
Miss Dorothy Munch 
Miss Margaret Birch 



The Fall and Winter Months 



Miss Helene Darling 
Miss Alice Hardy 



Mrs. Harold Webb 
Miss Marjorie Gott 



Webster Plaisted 



Miss Mabel Perry 
Miss Alice Lenk 

The Four Winds 

Charles Adams Fletcher Tuttle 

Thornton Cutler 

Triptolemus 

George Currier 



Festival of Ceres 

Greek Worshippers — Study Club 

Mrs. Alice Kent Quimby Miss Helen Crosby 

Mrs. Edmund W. Byram 

Mrs. George Lloyd 

Miss Maysie Simpson 

Mrs. C. H. Roberts 

Mrs. F. C. Mitchell 

Mrs. James Tilden 



Miss Lane 
Mrs. W. H. Ilsley 
Mrs. Bert Currier 
Miss Christine Currier 
Mrs. Luther Sherman 
Mrs. T. W. White 
Mrs. George A. Wood 



Mrs. Edward L. Shinn 
Mrs. George Clark 
Mrs. Clark Stover 
Mrs. L. W. M. Worthen 
Mrs. Philip Allyn 
Mrs. W. C. Drouet 



Miss Florence B. Whittemore 
Miss Maude Gray 
Miss Ruth E. Danforth 
Miss Marion Dawes 

Wm. 

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Ceralia — Eastern Star Lodge 

Miss Lillian Bacon Henry B. Tucker 

Miss Ruth Lindberg Oliver T. Kidder 

Miss Isabel C. Gratto Frank J. Clare 

N. Harold Tucker Clifford Stoute 

Sinclair John Waage 



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Miss Mildred McKay 
Miss Helen Rolfe 
Miss Jessie Connor 
Miss Eleanor Homer 
Robert C. Clifford 
Gardner Porter 
A. Oswald Yeames 
Milton Hayman 



A. J. Hendrick 
Kervin R. Dunton 
Frederick G. Wilder 
Dabney S. Taylor, Jr. 



Roman Harvest Dancers 

Miss Gertrude Thomas 
Miss Rachel Tuttle 
Miss Beryl O'Hara 
Miss Marion Bullard 
Wendall Reycroft 
Philip Dunbar 
Gardner Bullard 
Forrest C. Osgood 

Arval Brothers 

George H. Lloyd Daniel Cameron 

F. N. Toothaker, Jr. Louis W. Ross 

Fred W. O'Brien Foster Doane 

Dennis Donahue Horace Peirce 



Miss Louise Hooker 
Miss Florence Hicks 
Miss Edith Munch 
Miss Miriam Stevens 
Harlan Reycroft 
Donald Scully 
Robert Cook 
Dana Hardy 



Master Doane 



Master Sargent 



Flowering of the Seed 

Mrs. Robert N. Snyder 



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The Prelude 



ENTER. Classic Heralds, who an- 
nounce the coming groups and 
transport the audience on the wings 
of the imagination to the flowery 
meadows of Sicily. 

ENTER. Spirit of Pageantry group 
announced by Classic Heralds. Re- 
view of group. 

This group consists of six mounted 
figures, bearing banners with appro- 
priate devices or torches. They are 
robed in picturesque costumes, ex- 
quisite in color and full of poetic 
suggestiveness in the decorations, 
which are also of symbolic or historic 
significance. The group thus sug- 
gests the ideas and sentiments that 
have been associated with and that 
have inspired pageantry throughout 
the ages. 

EXIT. Pageantry group. 

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ENTER. The Forerunners of Ceres, 
— the Husbandman, with plough 
drawn by oxen with garlands ; the 
Sower, the Reaper, the Children of 
the Hours, the Hours. The Hours, 
the Sower and Reaper take their 
places as a chorus. 

EXIT. Husbandman and Children. 

ENTER. Ceres and Proserpine, with 
Attendants. 

Flora, Pomona, and Horticulture are 
goddesses who presided over flowers, 
fruits and gardens ; Copia was the 
goddess of plenty ; Themis presided 
over the laws of nature ; and the 
Horae, Dice, Irene, and Eunomia pre- 
sided over the changes of seasons 
and the rain clouds; Industry uses 
all these forces to bring the increase. 
At the entrance of Ceres, the Hours 
begin to sing, and the Attendants 
join in 



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The Welcome to Ceres 

Chorus 

Hail! Ceres, hail, Earth-Mother hail ! 
Bounteous giver of golden grain, 
Goddess of field and fertile vale, 
Mother of lovely Proserpine, 
Hail, Ceres, hail, all hail, all hail! 

The Parting of Ceres and 
Proserpine 

CERES 
The fallow fields my coming wait, 
The clods unquickened lie. 
I hear imprisoned rootlet call, — 

Chorus 
Come, Mother Ceres, ere too late! 
All nature now is held in thrall, 
From out our bondage set us free ! 
Oh let each meadow, vale and field 
With fragrant incense honor thee 
And plenteous harvests yield ! 

CERES 

Ah hark! I hear the wistful cry 
Of waiting barley, wheat and rye, — 
Earth Mother, come, for thee we wait ! 

PROSERPINE 

Go on thy way, O mother dear, 
Thy mighty duties to fulfil, 
But oh, how lonely and how drear 
The hours will be ere thy return ! 

Chorus 
Then let her bid the Naiads come 
From sedgy bank and cove, 
And let her bid the Dryads come 
From leafy bower and grove, 

They know her voice 

And they rejoice 
To sport with her the livelong day. 

CERES 

The dreary hours to speed away 

Call Dryads from their woodland dreams 

And Naiads from the lakes and streams, 

But, daughter, hark! 

My warning mark! 
Of lonely meads you must beware! 



Though lilies pure 

Hold out their lure 
Oh let them not thy footsteps snare! 
Farewell, my child, my sweet delight, 
I go upon my destined way 
To wake the fields to life and light. 

Chorus 

Farewell, farewell ! 

Go thou upon thy destined way 

To wake the fields to life and light ! 

EXIT. Ceres and Attendants. Pros- 
erpine follows for a short distance, 
waves her scarf in farewell, then re- 
turns and blows her pipe to call the 
Naiads and Dryads. 

ENTER. Naiads from the water, and 
Dryads from the trees. They dance 
with Proserpine till they hear Tri- 
ton's horn. They stop, listen, and 
when the horn sounds again they 
run away towards the water. Pan 
and Satyrs appear, and chase off the 
Dryads to the woods. 

EXIT. Naiads and Dryads. 

ENTER. Flower Maidens, who meet 
Proserpine as she is following the 
Nymphs. They put a garland round 
her neck and bring her back to the 
stage, where they begin to dance. 
While they are dancing, Proserpine 
slips away unnoticed by her com- 
panions, dropping her garland as 
she goes. She stops now and then to 
gather daffodils, but as soon as she 
wanders out of sight the earth opens 
and Pluto springs out and carries 
her off in his golden chariot. 

EXIT. Proserpine. 

ENTER. Ceres, who returns bearing a 
torch, for she has already begun her 
search for her lost daughter. She 
gazes at the drooping flowers and 
sings 

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The Lament of Ceres 

CERES 

What desolation drear! 
Where, where is Proserpine ? 
O nymphs, I beg ye tell 
If, lured by powers malign, 
She plucked the asphodel. 
Or to show by some token 

If she lives, 
Ere my mother-heart with grief is broken. 

Ceres wanders among the flowers 
looking for her daughter, while the 
chorus sing 

The Prayer to the Heavens 

Chorus 

O sun and moon and friendly stars 
Upon her weary quest attend her, 
Have pity on her lonely heart, 
Thy help and faithful guidance lend her! 

CERES 
Woe, woe! 

'Tis vain for aid to wait, 
My soul must bow to fate! 

Ceres, in utter despair, picks up the 
garland dropped by her daughter, 
and goes to the "Maiden's Well," 
where she weeps. 

ENTER. The Daughters of Celeus, 
with their brazen pitchers, to draw 
water at the well. They gaze at 
Ceres in awe, vaguely realizing her 
divine character. 

EXIT. Daughters of Celeus. 

ENTER. The Fall and Winter 

Months. 
Chorus 

Behold the summer's foes 

Advance with blighting power, 

Alas for field and glade 

And every radiant flower! 

They all must droop and fade, 

And the seed can not waken, 
While in woe 

Ceres hides her face and weeps forsaken. 

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The months scatter the leaves, and 
blight the flowers with wind, frost 
and snow; for while Ceres weeps, 
desolation reigns over the barren 
earth. 

The Appeal to Zeus 

Chorus 

O mighty Zeus espouse her cause 

And bid at last that Pluto render 

Her daughter from the Realm of Shade. 

No help nor man nor god will tender ! 

Woe, woe ! 

'Tis vain for aid to wait, 

Her soul must bow to fate. 

At last Zeus takes pity on Ceres, 
and commands Pluto to allow Pros- 
erpine to return to her mother for 
a part of the year. February, the 
month nearest spring, beckons 
towards the south, and March en- 
treats Zephyrus to bring back the 
Spring. At last Proserpine appears 
and March leads her to Ceres. 

EXIT. Fall and Winter Months 

Proserpine goes to her mother and 
arouses her from her grief. Ceres 
rises and joyfully takes off* the black 
veil that covers Proserpine like a 
shroud (for she has come from the 
Realm of Shadows), and Ceres and 
the chorus sing 

The Return of Spring 

CERES AND CHORUS 
Lifted is the veil of Death, 
Spring returns with quick'ning breath. 
Lo! the earth with its myriad voices 
In Spring rejoices ! 

Flowers awake and the woodlands ring 
Proserpine returns to bring 
The bright and gladsome Spring 
Rejoice ! 'tis Spring ! 



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ENTER. Attendants of Ceres during 
the song. The Flowers are awak- 
ened by Proserpine. They form a,n 
avenue through which Proserpine 
leads Ceres to the throne, where she 
sits surrounded by her attendants. 

ENTER. Triptolemus, the Winds, 
the Arval Brothers. Triptolemus 
(who was chosen by Ceres to sow 
the seeds of civilization, and to teach 
man the mystery of the plough and 
the arts of peace) kneels at the feet 
of Ceres, while the Winds and the 
Arvales stand in front of the throne. 
Ceres gives the seed to Triptolemus 
and sings the charge toTriptolemus. 
CERES 

Fling wide unto the winds the golden 

grain, 
Fling wide the gifts of Ceres o'er the 

earth. 
Go teach to man the art of husbandry, 
That wars may cease, and Peace begin 

her reign, 
Fling wide unto the winds the golden 

grain ! 

Triptolemus arises and goes forth to 
sow the seed, while the winds scatter 
it to the four corners of the earth. 
Then the Arval Brothers bless the 
fields as they did in the early days of 
Rome, by performing a rite in which 
they sing a hymn, regarded as the 
earliest specimen of Latin literature. 

CHORUS AND ARVAL BROTHERS 

Hymn of Arvales 

Nos Lares invate 

Ne tuem ruem 

Maimers sinas incurrere in plures 

Satur esto fere Mars ! 

In limen insili ! sta ! verbera 

Semones alterni advocate cunctos 

Nos Mamers invato 

Tripudia 1 



"Ye Lares aid us! Mars, thou God of 

Might! 
From murrain shield the flocks, the 

flowers from blight. 
For thee, O Mars, a feast shall be 

prepared, — 
Salt and a wether from the herd; 
Invite, by turn, each demi-god of Spring. 
Great Mars assist us, triumph, triumph 

sing! " 

Seed-Sowers and Arvales take places 
near throne. 

ENTER. Summer, who, in a dance, 
symbolizes the miracle of nature — 
the perfect flower, the source of new 
life — wrought by the agencies of 
nature. Like everything in the Pag- 
eant that centers around seed-sow- 
ing and harvest, it also symbolizes 
the development and flowering of 
the human spirit. 

ENTER. Greek Worshippers of 
Ceres, led by the Interpreter, as in 
the Eleusinian festival. She is fol- 
lowed by women bearing the sacred 
basket of Ceres, and by others carry- 
ing smaller baskets containing fruit 
and flowers. Then follow women 
bearing the image of Iacchus, who 
aided Ceres in her search for Proser- 
pine. They are followed by torch- 
bearers. As the procession passes in 
front of the throne, the spectators 
shout, as in the Greek mystery, 
"Hail, Ceres, hail!" 
It then returns, passing by the 
Maiden's Well," where it stops, 
while some of the worshippers dance 
around it, in memory of the grief of 
Ceres. 

(Greek worshippers take places in 
tableau.) 



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ENTER. Roman Peasants, as in the 
Roman Ceralia, playing on pipes and 
cymbals. They are followed by a 
hay wagon on the top of which chil- 
dren joyfully hold up the last sheaf. 
This was worshipped in early pagan 
days by rites which are to-day per- 
formed in the harvest fields of 
Europe. 

(Roman peasants take places in tab- 
leau.) 

ENTER. Roman Harvest Dancers, 
with flowers and fruits. The harvest 



dance is riotously gay and joyous, 
and flower-throwing is a charming 
. feature of it. All harvest dances 
were in the nature of worship, for 
dances in ancient times were an in- 
dispensable part of all ceremonies, 
religious or festive, even of funerals. 
This dance especially was a joyous 
expression of the gratitude of man 
for the gifts of Ceres. 

EXIT. All the characters in the Pre- 
lude. 



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Pageanters in the Episodes 

Spirit of Modern Progress — Rough Riders 

Miss Ruth Tousey H. A. Phinney William Bott 

Miss Frances Adams William A. Muller H. Malcolm Reed 

Norsemen — Norfolk Road Club 

A. D. Woodworth George Howland Thomas R. Winchell 

Charles Victor Stearns Gilman Frazier Howland James W. Baston 

Loren W. Marsh Thomas E. Penard Harold L. Frost 

William E. Hardy Fred Holdsworth William J. Hyde 

Norse Dancers for Reaping the Flax 

Miss Edith Davis Miss Rena Young Kenneth Reed 

Miss Lucretia Kellogg Miss Helen Doughty Standwood Cook 

Miss Anna Hooker Hoyt D. Marsden Fred Percy 

Miss Ruth Scully John Snow Stanley Kellogg 

Columbus, his Companions, Indians — Knights of Columbus 

William P. Slattery Joseph A. Cutcliffe James L. Hughes 

George C. Carens Frank E. Kenney Frank A. O'Brien 

David T. Dale John H. Savage John I. O'Brien 

Joseph D. Tierney Frank F. Dunn Michael F. Horrigan 

William D. Grannan Walter T. Duffy Frank McConnell 

Eugene M. Creedon Florie A. Kelley Patrick Donnelly 
J. M. Mead D. F. Ahearn 

English Explorers — Hiram Lodge, A.F. & A.M. 

Frederick W. Damon Robert S. Dinsmore Edward N. Lacey 

George O. Goldsmith Calvin P. Cook Winfred Durgin 

Charles Rideout Horace A. Lewis Charles Thomas 

F. Alfred Pattison 

Morris Dancers — The Hobby Club 

Norman Swett Amos Stevens Jordan Silver 

Harold Estabrook Albert Stevens Oswald Banks 

Milton Estabrook Ben Mooney Francis Power 

Harold Bixby Arthur Dallin Daniel Clifford 

French Pioneers — Ancient Order of Hibernians 

Patrick Canty Thomas McCarthy J. W. Harrington 

Patrick O'Connell D. W. Grannan Patrick Breen 

Daniel M. Daley Daniel Barry Charles A. Keegan 

Jas. P. Daley Denis Driscoll David Keefe 

William McCormack 

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Miss Marion McLellan 
Miss Dorothy Black 
Miss Marjorie Cutting 
Mrs. Haverlock Mader 
Miss Spaulding 
Miss Shirly Robinson 
Miss Laura Robinson 



French Vintage Dancers 

Miss Katherine E. Hunt 
Miss Elouise Hunt 
Thomas Percy 
Kenneth Young 
Miss Louise Hatch 
Miss Dorothy Currier 
Melvin Breed 
Rudolph Swan 



Charles Doughty 
Sidney B. Whipple 
Bertram Dallin 
David Beatie 
Jack Sanford 
George Nixon 
Howard Groupe 



Mayflower Pilgrims and Indians — Bay State Order of 

Orangemen 



Miss Ella McNutt 
Miss Hildred Gorveatt 
Miss Catherine Dunbar 
Miss Margaret Rood 
Miss Catherine McCuish 
Miss Anna Irving 
Miss Fanny Cartwright 
Miss Lizzie Scoggen 
Mrs. Malcolm Ross 
Mrs. Robert Lennon 
Mrs. David Stanley 



John Elliott 
Joseph B. Siggins 
Thomas MaGee 
Kenneth W. Await 
Malcolm Campbell 
William Smith 
William J. Stevenson 
George J. Speers 
Harry Kinkade 
Warren Irwin 
William C. Balsor 



Mrs. James Crammond 
Mrs. David Hammond 
Malcolm McGregor 
Malcolm A. Ross 
David Lynch 
James Crammond 
James Wilson 
John Smith 
David Stanley 
Angus Campbell 
George Smith 

Massasoit 

Trafford Hicks 

Samoset 

Gardner Porter 



Merrymount Settlers, Arlington Boat Club 

W. Forbes Robertson Elmer A. Chadwick I. S. Hill 

Ernest Wyman W. E. Warnick James Coke 

Louis Hoyt E. A. Smith C. G. Parsons 

Clifford R. Gleason H. G. Farr R. W. Homer 

Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony — Singers' Club 

Paul M. White 
S. A. Ewart 
Frederick I. Day 
Bert S. Currier 
Edward S. Crockett 
Alexander S. Jardine 
H. Luther Sherman 
Roger A. Sherman 



Mrs. John Loveitt 
Mrs. George C. Tewksbury 
Mrs. Joseph C. Holmes 
Mrs. Franklin S. Hunt 
Mrs. Oscar A. Schnetzer 
Mrs. C. H. Wilbur 
Miss Lavina Bunton 
Miss Alice G. Kendall 



Miss Josephine A. Learned 
Miss Dorothy N. Ring 
Miss Katharine S. Hunt 
Miss Charlotte Lloyd 
Laurence B. Hunt 
Eldredge Crockett 
William E. Bunton 
Ernest R. Brooks 



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Indian Women and Warriors — Daughters of Isabella 



Miss Harriett S. Bishop 
Miss May Scannell 
Miss Josephine Lowe 
Miss Margaret B. Murphy- 
Miss Retta V. Tole 
Miss Rosetta Dacey 
Miss Helen Donahue 
Miss Annie Moakley 
Miss Nellie Sweeney 
Miss Anna Callahan 
Miss Annie Dineen 
Miss Jennie Preston 



Frank Meagher 
John McCarthy 
Conrad Gallagher 
Daniel Murphy 
Thomas Quinn 
Frank Savage 
John Flynn 
Frank McConnell 
John Robinson 
Walter Grannan 
Walter Duffey 
Edward Sweeney 



Early Settlers, Squa- Sachem and Chiefs 

Mrs. Lucinda M. Higgins D. Roy McClare L. R. Goodwin 

Miss Dorothy Blevins John Blevins Egbert Stackpole 

Chester W. White Clinton Schwamb A. H. Bangs 

John Hatfield Clarence Moore Reuben Wood 



Ralph Hatfield 



Thomas E. Freeman 
Vinton Sears 
John Jones 



A. E. Bowie 

Oliver Wood 



Walter M. Horton 



Paul Revere and Farmers 



Edward Kelley 
Hamlyn Robbins 
Alton Mansel 



Alfred Viano 
Louis Ross 
Howard Cousins 



George Lowe 



Walter Hutchinson 



1st and 2d Detachment of British Soldiers — Boys' Brigade 



A. Allen Kimball 
George E. Miller 
Sherman Peppard 
Arthur H. Vail 
Neil Alsen 
Percy Johnson 
Ernest E. Pearse 



Wm. A. Stevens 
I. W. Floyd 
F. D. Ennis 
Edward Schwamb 
Walter Schwamb 
O. J. Sebolt 
J. L. Ennis 
M. J. Bacon 



Norman Walkinshaw Ralph A. Philpott 

Albert N. Pyne Wilbur P. Chase 

Donald Ross Harold Thorpe 

William L. Carroll Nils Tenneson 

Cyrus W. Wolffer J. Edward Kelty 

James L. Bain Joseph M. Burtt 
Ralph S. Hooper 
"Nabby Blackington," Miss Ruth Mitchell 

Minute Men — Sons of Veterans 



C. H. Cummings 
Joseph Hurley 
Wilford Hurley 

A. F. Breed 

B. W. Ham 
H. H. Bacon 
James Green 
R. E. Hanna 



W. I. Rich 
George Chapman 
E. H. Griffith 
Pearlie Chapman 
Philip Ross 
Fred Goldsmith 
Clinton Ross 
C. P. Cook 



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Sisters 
Miss Inga S. MacFarland 
Miss A. Gertrude MacFarland 
Miss Lucy Whiting 
Children 
Malcolm Griffin Ruth Griffin Clarence Powers 

Ethel MacFarland Elsa Haller 



Miss Jennie D. Tucker 
Miss Lucretia Floyd 
Miss Mabella M. Ham 



Miss Lydia E. Stevens 
Miss Hazel M. Young 
Miss Bessie E. Griffin 

Beulah Ham 
Florence Tucker 



Old Men and British Soldiers with Supply Wagons 

George E. Varney Olvin F. Osgood J. Lincoln Collins 

Charles F. Coolidge Francis B. Records, Jr. William C. Drouet 

Edward H. Cutter Arthur N. Tappan 

George Hill Nathan C. Lombard 

William H. Illsley Andrew Bain 

Henry A. Leeds William T. Beattie 

Lewis F. Brown 



Floyd S. Davis 
George O. Goldsmith 
Robert W. Herrick 
Albert W. Hilliard 



Incorporation of the Town of West Cambridge 

Group 1 — Bearer of Town Seal 
Thomas J. Robinson 

Group 2 — The Incorporated Town 
Mrs. Ida Hooker 



Lindsay Foster 



Lares and Penates 

Frank Ellwell Lorenze Rimbach George Salt 



Mrs. Frank Bott 
Mrs. William Cook 
Mrs. E. P. Stickney 
Mrs. William Elwell 



Group 3 — Civic Virtues 

Mrs. J. J. Lane 
Mrs. Ernest Moore 
Mrs. Frank Noyes 
Mrs. D. T. Percy 

Mrs. Charles H. Hoxie 



Mrs. E. A. Darling 
Miss Therese Norton 
Miss Edna Pierce 
Mrs. T. J. Robinson 



Lafayette and Travelling Companions- 
George Sawyer N. E. Whittier 



-Odd Fellows 

C. O. Francis 



Flower Children and Spectators — Daughters of Rebekah 



Grace Bennett 
William Bennett 
Mildred Peck 
Norma Gray 
Lizzie Await 
Carlton Prince 

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Charlotte Holbrook 
Pruan Bennett 
Clifford Mahoney 
Mrs. Emma Hovey 
Mrs. Sarah Whittier 
Mrs. Annie Gray 



Mrs. Lizzie Holmes 
Mrs. Martha Spaulding 
Miss Pearl Wright 
Mrs. Marie Schuhmacher 
Mrs. Addie Morse 
Mrs. Henrietta Peppard 



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Procession of 1867— Business Men's Association 



Spectators— Historical Society 



Mrs. H. H. Homer 
Miss Susie Winn 
Mrs. C. H. Easte 
Mrs. William N. Winn 
Miss Mary Scanlan 
Miss Josephine Hooker 

Army Nurses- 
Mrs. Catherine Finley 
Mrs. Carolyn R. Morse 
Mrs. Minnie O. Emes 
Mrs. Georgianna Averil 
Mrs. Angie Marden 
Mrs. Nellie Marden 
Mrs. Sarah J. Ewart 
Mrs. Jennie L. Wright 



Miss Dorothy Dewing 
Mrs. George Allen 
Miss Elizabeth Newton 
Miss Millie Bucknam 
Thomas Gray 
Rodney Hardy 



Thomas Hogan 
C. H. Easte 
William N. Winn 
George Allen 
William F. Homer, Jr. 
Allison Bailey 



-Francis Gould Woman 

Mrs. Jennie Russell 
Mrs. Clara J. Smith 
Mrs. May L. Durgin 
Mrs. Amelia Elder 
Mrs. Kate Gratto 
Mrs. Georgie Lindsay 
Mrs. Ida Bowman 
Mrs. Annie Hartwell 



's Relief Corps 

Mrs. Margaret Urquhart 
Mrs. Gertrude McNiel 
Mrs. Mary Sinclair 
Mrs. Susie Collins 
Mrs. Clara Knowlton 
Mrs. Fannie S. Hazen 
Mrs. A. J. Collins 
Mrs. Bertha Sillens 



Civil War Veterans— Francis Gould Post, 36 



George H. Averill 
James A. Bailey 
George W. Barnes 
Henry W. Berthrong 
Benjamin F. Billings 
Leander D. Bradley 
Leland F. Bridgham 
Charles G. Brockway 
Frank D. Chant 
David Chenery 
Henry Clark 
James A. Cooper 
George H. Cutter 
John Ewart 
Kimball Farmer 



Wilson W. Fay 
Reuben Frost 
Sylvester C. Frost 
John H. Hardy 
Daniel E. Howard 
Ira Kennaston 
Reneselaer A. Knight 
Alfred H. Knowles 
Philetus C. Lathrop 
John Leamee 
Murdock McLeod 
Andrew McGinnes 
Edward F. Morong 
Edward M. Murphy 
Constant F. Oakman 
George E. Cross 



Charles S. Parker 
Charles A. Parsons 
William H. Pattee 
Henry B. Pierce 
Henry Quick 
Marshall N. Rice 
J. Willard Russell 
Horace M. Smith 
Wilber F. Smith 
Edward L. Sterling 
William F. Teel 
Robert H. White 
Henry F. Whitney 
Benjamin F. Wright 
Moses A. Wood 



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Historical Episodes 



ENTER. Spirit of Progress Group. 

Review of group. 

EXIT. Group. 

The Spirit of Progress group con- 
sists of mounted figures bearing 
torches or banners with appropriate 
devices. They suggest the ele- 
ments in European life and thought 
that emancipated men from the 
fears engendered by tyranny, igno- 
rance and superstition, and led them 
to explore unknown lands and un- 
travelled regions of thought. 

EPISODE I 

THE EXPLORERS AND DISCOVERERS OF 

AMERICA THE MEN WHO SHOWED 

THE WAY AND PLOUGHED UP THE 

SOIL OF AMERICA FOR THE 

COLONISTS. 

The Discovery of Vinland 

Scene. Vinland, probably somewhere 
on the coast of Massachusetts, 1 ,000 
A. D. 

ENTER. Leif Ericsson and Compan- 
ions, shouting. According to the 
story as told in the Saga of Leif the 
Fortunate, Leif Ericsson and his 
twelve companions are looking for 

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Tyrker, the foster-father of Leif, 
who has become separated from his 
comrades. Leif is very fond of Tyr- 
ker and is very much disturbed at 
his disappearance, so he blows his 
horn, and orders his men to go with 
him to find him. Tyrker, a droll- 
looking, little old man, appears com- 
ing from the opposite direction. 
They greet him joyfully and bois- 
terously. Then he holds up some 
bunches of grapes, and persuades 
Leif and his men to follow him to 
where the grapes grow. They do 
this, and lade their vessel with 
grapes. 

EXIT. Norsemen, who are seen later 
in their boat. 

Scandinavian Folk-Dance 

Scene. A harvest field in Finland. 

ENTER. Girls and boys with rakes 
and scythes. They dance the Fin- 
nish Folk-Dance, " Reaping the 
Flax." 

EXIT. Dancers. 

" Reaping the Flax," with various 
modifications, has been danced at 
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places in all Norse countries since 
the earliest times. Folk-dances usu- 
ally symbolize by gestures or 
rhythmic movements of the body 
the emotions of primitive peoples 
called forth by the great experiences 
of their lives — seed-sowing, har- 
vest, love-making, marriage, the 
hunt, the conflict with an enemy. 
Those relating to agriculture or mar- 
riage are usually danced in the circle 
form, while those symbolizing rival- 
ry or warfare are danced in the line 
form. 

The Landing of Columbus 

Scene. The shores of San Salvador, 
Oct. 12, 1492. Boats are seen ap- 
proaching as the last strains of the 
Te Deum are heard. 

ENTER. Columbus, who lands and 
takes possession of the island in the 
name of his sovereigns. 

ENTER. The Captains of the Boats, 
who plant the banners of the Green 
Cross, while Columbus plants the 
Royal Standard of Spain. All kneel 
while the Cross is planted. 

ENTER. Mutinous Sailors, who are 
pardoned by Columbus. Meanwhile 
some Indians have been watching 
with awe the impressive ceremonies. 

ENTER. Indians from their hiding- 
place among the trees. They ap- 
proach the Spaniards, filled with 
curiosity at the dress and beards of 
the strangers. Columbus gives them 
red caps and beads, which he orders 
the sailors to bring from the boats. 

EXIT. Columbus Group. 

Other brave mariners had sailed 
many leagues along strange coasts, 



and won deserved renown ; but Col- 
umbus was the first to bid good-by 
to the land and steer straight into 
the trackless ocean, in reliance up- 
on a scientific theory. This fact is 
of itself enough to make him one of 
the most sublime figures in history. ' ' 

The English Occupation of 
America 

Scene. Various parts of America where 
the English landed, 1497-1607. 

ENTER. John and Sebastian Cabot, 
Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain John 
Smith, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir 
Francis Drake, and others. They 
plant royal standards, flags, and the 
arms of England, rallying round 
them and shouting, God Save the 
King!" 

EXIT. English Explorers. 

The early explorers took possession 
of the shores upon which they land- 
ed by dramatic and picturesque 
ceremonies. On the shores of Labra- 
dor, in 1497, the Cabots raised a 
large cross with the flag of England, 
and from affection for Venice, they 
also raised the banner of St. Mark. 
Sir Francis Drake, in 1577, received 
from the native king and his sub- 
jects on the coast of California, a 
sceptre and crown which he ac- 
cepted for his queen, raising a 
monument in witness of England's 
sovereignty. Sir Humphrey Gil- 
bert planted the arms of England 
on the shores of New Foundland, 
calling together the Spaniards to 
witness the ceremony. Captain John 
Smith carried the English flag to 
New England. He also planted it 
at Jamestown and became the savior 
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of the settlement. The charter 
granted to Sir Walter Raleigh by 
Queen Elizabeth was written upon 
a great piece of parchment and 
sealed with the queen's seal. ' ' This 
document resulted in great advance- 
ment of the English power in 
America. 

English Folk- Dance — Bean- 
Setting 

Scene. An English village green. 

ENTER. Twelve Boys dressed as 
Morris dancers, with sticks and jin- 
gling bells. They go through a 
series of movements symbolizing 
seed-sowing. 

EXIT. Morris Dancers. 

The Morris dances of England are 
supposed by some authorities to be 
of Moorish origin, hence their name. 
They were a feature of English paro- 
chial festivals as far back as the time 
of John of Gaunt, who is said to 
have brought them from Spain. 
Some authorities, however, claim 
for them a much more ancient ori- 
gin, and also that certain elements 
in them are relics of ancient rites 
and ceremonies. The fact that half 
the dancers used to black their faces 
suggests that the dance represented 
a battle between the Moors and 
Christians. 

The French Explorations in 
America 

Scene. Various parts of America about 
the great rivers and lakes explored 
by the French, 1534-1673. 

ENTER. Jacques Cartier, who raised 
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the lilies of France on a lofty cross 
on the shores of New Foundland, in 
1534, and discovered the St. Law- 
rence. Samuel de Champlain, the 
Father of New France, who, in 
1608, raised over Quebec the white 
flag in sign of French possession ; 
La Salle, who, in Louisiana, in 
1682, raised a cross with the French 
arms, while his followers sang the 
Te Deum, fired off guns, and shouted, 
Vive le roi /' ' Also Pere Marquette, 
who, in 1673, explored the Missis- 
sippi and gained the love and con- 
fidence of the Indians. They rally 
round the French standards and 
shout, Five le roi ! " 

EXIT. French Pioneers. 

The French Vintage Dance 

Scene. A harvest field in France. 

ENTER. French Peasants. They set 
up the last sheaf, which is dressed 
like a puppet, and called, Ceres." 
Then they dance around it, symbol- 
izing by their movements the life 
of the vine. The Ceres" is then 
snatched up by one of the dancers 
and carried off to be burned, while 
the others follow in pursuit. 

EXIT. Vineyard Dancers. 

EPISODE II 

PLANTING OF MASSACHUSETTS 

The Pilgrims at Plymouth 

Scene 1 . Shore at Plymouth, Dec. 25, 
1620. Boats approach from the May- 
flower. 

ENTER. Pilgrims, landing from 
boats. They fall on their knees and 
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Then the men unload their boats or 
arrange kettles for boiling water, 
while the women and children 
gather fagots for the fire. 
Scene 2. Before the Governor's log 

house, Mar.' 16, 1621. 
ENTER. Captain Miles Standish, 
Governor Carver, Elder Brewster, 
Edward Winslow, and others. They 
begin to drill under the captain's 
direction. 
ENTER. Samoset, walking boldly 
amongst them, saying, "Welcome, 
Englishmen ! " The greeting is re- 
turned. Samoset persuades Edward 
Winslow to go with him to Massasoit 
and some Indians waiting at a dis- 
tance. 
EXIT. Samoset and Edward Winslow. 
Miles Standish orders his men to 
beat drums and blow trumpets as 
Samoset and Massasoit approach. 
ENTER. Samoset, Winslow, Massa- 
soit and Indians, who are delighted 
at their reception. Massasoit and 
Governor Carver smoke the Peace 
Pipe, and a treaty is signed. 
EXIT. Indians. 

Pilgrims return thanks for this 
treaty, which was kept fifty years, 
during which time the colony was 
established. 
EXIT. Pilgrims. 

The Revels at Merrymount 

Scene. Field near Quincy. 

ENTER. Thomas Morton, a group of 
cavaliers, Robin Hood, clowns and 
Indians, all singing an old English 
song. They set up a Maypole and 
dance around it. 



ENTER. John Endicott and Puri- 
tans, who order the Maypole to be 
thrown down and the revellers dis- 
persed. 
EXIT. Revellers and Puritans. 
Thomas Morton, ' 'a picturesque but 
ill-understood personage," tried to 
transplant in America the old Eng- 
lish pastimes, and to found a Royal- 
ist and Episcopal settlement. In a 
community where festivals were fast 
days, and where the chief pleasure 
was singing psalms and listening to 
sermons three hours long, his efforts 
to establish customs which sprang 
from the spontaneous joy in life and 
in nature were unsuccessful. The 
Maypole was an especial eye-sore to 
the Puritans. "Woe to the youth or 
maiden who did but think of the 
dance!" The whipping-post was 
the Puritan Maypole ! 



A Puritan Service 

Scene. Field near Boston about 1630. 
ENTER. At the call of the drum, a 
group of Puritans, who came over 
with John Winthrop in the great 
Puritan exodus and settled about 
thirty towns around Boston. The 
people gather in groups. 
ENTER. The Minister, John Wilson, 
' and the Tithing Man. The congre- 
gation sing a hymn, unite in prayer, 
listen to a sermon, sing another 
hymn and disperse. 

EXIT. Puritans. 

"The congregations always assem- 
bled at the stated times, whether in 
the open fields or under the shade 
of an ancient oak." 

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" Of all the migrations of peoples, 
the settlement of New England is 
pre-eminently the one in which the 
almighty dollar played the smallest 
part." 

God sifted a whole nation that he 
might send choice grain into the 
wilderness." 

EPISODE III 

THE PLANTING OF MENOTOMY 

Indian Corn- Planting 

Scene 1. A cornfield. 

ENTER. Indian warriors and Indian 
women. The Indian warriors stand 
in a group and watch the women 
who plant the corn. This work they 
consider a sacred privilege, — as an 
equivalent for the work of the men 
in providing food and skins, and in 
protecting the lodges. They plant 
the corn as the Indians taught the 
Pilgrims to do it, by using alewives 
in each drill as an enriching manure. 
Then they call upon the Great Spirit 
to bless the planted corn. 

Scene 2. A village square. 

The warriors sit down around three 
sides of the village square — the old 
warriors and drummers at the end 
and the young braves at the sides. 
The women sit also at the sides. 
The drums begin to beat, and a 
ceremony which follows the corn- 
planting is performed, according to 
a description in the autobiography 
of Chief Black Hawk. A warrior 
goes into the open space and relates 
his hunting exploits. After the beat- 
ing of drums, another tells how he 
killed an enemy. All applaud with 
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growing excitement. Finally, an old 
chief tells how he scalped a white 
man. Drums and great applause. 

EXIT. Indians. 

The Purchase of Land from 
the Squa- Sachem 

Scene. Menotomy , near Mystic Lake, 
about 1638. 

ENTER. From one side the represen- 
tatives of the towns of Charlestown 
and Cambridge, with some early 
settlers ; from the other direction, 
the Squa-Sachem — the Queen of 
Massachusetts, who held in her pos- 
session a large tract of land in Me- 
notomy ; her sons, and other chiefs. 
The conveyance of the land is trans- 
acted by the exchange of gifts, and 
a deed is drawn up similar to one 
now in the East Cambridge Court 
House, which contains the Squa- 
Sachem's signature. 

EXIT. The Whole Group. 

[copy of deed] 
Wee Web-Cowet and Squa Sachem do 
sell unto the inhabitants of the Town of 
Charlestown, all the land within the line 
granted them by the court, (excepting the 
farmes and the ground, on the West of the 
two great Ponds called Misticke ponds, 
from south side of Mr. Nowell's lott, neere 
the upper end of the ponds, unto the little 
runnet that cometh from Capt. Cooke's 
mills, which the Squa reserveth to their 
use, for her life, for the Indians to plant 
and hunt upon, and the weare above the 
ponds, they also reserve for the Indians to 
fish at whiles the Squa liveth, and after 
the death of Squa Sachem, she doth leave 
all her lands from Mr. Mayhue's house to 
neere Salem to the present Governor, Mr. 
John Winthrop, Sen'r, Mr. Increase No- 
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bons to dispose of, and all Indians to depart, 
and for sattisfaction from Charlestowne, 
wee acknowledge to have received in full 
satisfaction, twenty -one coates, ninten 
fathom of wampom, and three bushels of 
corne ; In witness whereof we have here- 
unto sett o'r hands the day and yeare 
above named. 

the marke of Squa Sachem, m'c 
the marke of Web Cower, m. 

Subscribed in the presence off. 
Jno. Humphrey 
Robert Ffeake. 

This is to testifle that the aforenamed purchase 
was made at the charges of the Inhabitants of 
Charlestowne, and to their use, and for so much 
as lyeth with in their limitts, we do accordingly 
resigne, and yield up all our interest therein, to 
the use of the said towne, according to the trust 
reposed in us. 10th mo. 18th, 1639. 

Jno. Winthrop, Gov'rn'r 
Increase Nowell 
Jno. Wilson 

Entered and recorded 23th (8 mo. 1656, 
By Thomas Danforth, Recorder. 

EPISODE IV 

MENOTOMY ON THE 19TH OF APRIL, 

1775 
Scene. Highway to Lexington. After 
midnight. 

ENTER. Paul Revere, riding quietly 
through Menotomy because the 
neighborhood was patrolled by 
British soldiers. As he nears Lex- 
ington he gives the alarm. 

ENTER. Farmers, who rush out to 
find out the news. They talk ex- 
citedly, and then go away to get 
ready for the day when History 
passed through our streets." 

EXIT. Paul Revere and farmers. 

British Soldiers Under Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Smith 

Scene. The highroad to Lexington. 
Two o'clock A.M. 



ENTER. Six hundred grenadiers and 
light infantry. (The spectator's im- 
agination must supply the requisite 
number.) They march stealthily, 
but Colonel Smith, realizing that the 
country is aroused, dispatches a mes- 
senger to General Gage for re-in- 
forcements. 

EXIT. British Soldiers. 

The annals of the history of West 
Cambridge are full of thrilling inci- 
dents in connection with this event, 
for watchful eyes " were upon the 
passing troops. 

Departure of the Minute Men 

Scene. The village green. At day- 
break. 

ENTER. A Drummer, Captain Ben- 
jamin Locke, and Samuel Bowman. 
At sound of the drum, the Minute 
Men gather, taking hurried leave of 
their wives and children. Then the 
roll is called and they march away. 

EXIT. Minute Men, their wives and 
children. 

Samuel Bowman was aroused at two 
o'clock in the morning by a grena- 
dier, asking for some water. As soon 
as the British soldiers had passed, he 
at once began to warn the company 
and at daybreak the men were 
formed on the common ready for 
active service. 

British Re-inforcements 
Under Lord Percy 

Scene. Highroad to Lexington, be- 
tween 1 and 2 o'clock p.m. 
ENTER. Twelve hundred British 
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soldiers, with two field pieces. They 
march to the tune of Yankee 
Doodle," but make way most gal- 
lantly to let a little girl, Nabby 
Blackington, pass through their 
ranks, leading a cow which she was 
tending by the wayside when they 
came upon her. 

Capture of the Supply Wagons 
by the "Exempts" 

Scene. Opposite the Village Green. 

ENTER. Twelve "Exempts" left be- 
hind by the Minute Men as too old 
to serve. They follow the plan of 
action decided upon by them at 
Cooper's Tavern, as soon as they 
learned that the convoy of provi- 
sions had become separated from 
Lord Percy's detachment. 

ENTER. British Soldiers with sup- 
ply wagons, which are captured by 
the Exempts." Thus to them be- 
longs the honor of making the first 
capture of provisions and also of 
prisoners in the American Revolu- 
tion." 

EXIT. " Exempts " and British. 

EPISODE V 

incorporation of the town or 

WEST CAMRRID6E, 1807 

ENTER. Bearers of the Town Seal ; 
the Town under a canopy borne by 
the Lares and Penates, the fireside 
gods; the Civic Virtues; Prosperity. 
TheTown is enthroned after passing 
between an avenue made for her by 
the Civic Virtues, who take their 
places about the throne. 

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EPISODE VI 

THE VISIT OF LAFAYETI-E, 1 824 

ENTER. A Group of Spectators — 
children with flowers, women, old 
Revolutionary soldiers, and an orator 
with a manuscript. 

ENTER. Lafayette and his travel- 
ling companions in a coach, owned 
by Governor Eustis and lent to 
Lafayette to use in travelling about 
Massachusetts. The coach is now in 
the possession of Mr. E. L. Lemon, 
of the Wayside Inn, who has kindly 
lent it for this occasion. Lafayette 
is greeted, as he was in all rural 
towns, with great enthusiasm — 
crowds cheered him, the old soldiers 
grasped his hand, children present- 
ed him with flowers, and the village 
orator welcomed him by a speech. 

EXIT. Lafayette and Spectators. 

EPISODE VII 

CHANGE OF NAME OF TOWN TO 
ARLINGTON, 1867 

Scene. The main street of Arlington. 

ENTER. Spectators, some of whom 
witnessed the procession and wear 
costumes worn on that occasion. 

ENTE R. A procession suggesting that 
of 1867. The floats will call atten- 
tion to the industries that laid the 
foundation of the prosperity of 
Arlington. Great enthusiasm of 
spectators. 

EXIT. Spectators, following the pro- 
cession. 

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half long, and everything was done 
on a corresponding scale. At the 
banquet given on this occasion, 
Charles Sumner said, "Yours is a 
beautiful town. I know nothing 
among the surroundings of Boston 
more charming than these slopes 
and meadows with the background 
of hills and gleam of water. . . . 
You have water in abundance gleam- 
ing, shining, sparkling in your land- 
scape. The water-nymphs might 
find a home here. You have gardens 
also beautiful to the eye and beau- 
tiful in their nourishing and luscious 
supplies. Surely it may be said of 
those who live here that their lines 
have fallen in a pleasant place." 

EPISODE VIII 

town's part in national life 

ENTER, Army Nurses, among whom 
are several that went to the front. 
They make preparation for the care 
of the wounded, then they troop 
the colors and form a tableau. 
"The women of West Cambridge 
early in the war formed an associ- 
ation for the preparation and 
transmission of articles needful to 
wounded and disabled soldiers." 

ENTER. Civil War Veterans, who, 
as they salute the flag, forcibly bring 
to the minds of the spectators the 
realization of what the country 
owed to them. 



(Veterans and Nurses take places in 

tableau.) 

"They kept their country's faith, and 

fought 
The New World's promise to fulfil, — 
To hold and leave unbroken still 
The ring of States the father's 

wrought." 
(From Ode by John Townsend Trowbridge, 
read at unveiling of Soldier's Monument, at 
Arlington, in 1887.) 

EPISODE IX 

THE FLOWERING OF THE TOWN'S LIFE 

ENTER. Ceres and Attendants, who 
lead her to the throne, the steps of 
which she mounts. Standing beside 
the Town she becomes its Tutelary 
Goddess. The Civic Virtues and 
Prosperity then reverently lay their 
attributes at the feet of the Town, 
and return to their places. 

EPISODE X 

THE SYMBOLIC PRESENTATION OF THE 
TOWN HALL 
(Civic Love kneels before the throne, holding 
the model of the Town Hall, during the next two 
episodes.) 

EPISODE XI 

RETURN OF ALL PAGEANTERS TO FORM 
A TABLEAU 

EPISODE XII 

PAGEANTERS AND AUDIENCE UNITE IN 
A HYMN OF THANKSGIVING 



RECESSIONAL 



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Mrs. Frank D. Sawyer 
Mrs. James A. Bailey, Jr. 
Miss Ethel Wellington 
Mr. Warren A. Peirce 



Mrs. B. A. Norton 
Mrs. Charles Cobb 
Mrs. James Daley 
Mrs. Henry Finley 



Mrs. William Homer 
Mrs. Charles Garvin 



Mr. Everett Turner 



Mr. Anthony J. Philpott 
Mr. John R. Hendrick 



Mr. Robert Pond 
Mr. Henry Adams 
Mr. G. E. Ahern 
Mr. Jacob Bitzer 
Mr. Philip Eberhardt 

Mr. Rodney Hardy 
Mr. William Elwell 
Mr. Louis Carr 



Mrs. E. H. Rowe 
Mrs. G. W. Chickering 
Mrs. Frank W. Garrett 



Mr. Charles McMillan 
Mrs. Edward Butler 
Mrs. W. K. Hutchinson 
Mr. J. G. Brackett 
Mr. T. J. Donnelly 
Mr. F. N. Young 

Mr. Fred C. Mitchell 



Committees 

Executive Committee 

Mrs. E. Nelson Blake 
Mrs. Gorham H. Davis 
Mrs. Charles A. Dennett 
Miss Annie J. Robinson 

Costume 

Mrs. William Hatch 
Mrs. Warren Peirce 
Mrs. Ralph Kirby 
Mrs. William Marsden 

Properties 

Mrs. Charles Coolidge 
Miss Anna G. Scannell 
Mr. William T. Foster, Jr. 

Program 

Mr. Burton Klein . 

Publicity 

Mr. Henry A. Kidder 
Mr. George Carens 

Grand Stand, Grounds 



Mr. John F. Scully 
Judge James P. Parmenter 
Mr. A. J. Philpott 
Mr. John A. Bishop 



Mrs. Harry Hayes 
Mrs. O. R. Whittemore 
Miss K. F. Collins 
Mrs. Charles Coolidge 



Dr. Charles D. Cobb 
Mr. C. F. Seavey 



Mr. Herbert B. Turner 



Mr. George B. C. Rugg 
Mr. Edgar Parker 



Mr. Charles Gannett 
Mr. William Gratto 
Mr. Phil. Hendrick 
Mr. Frank V. Noyes 

Display of Posters 

Mr. Max H. Meyer 
Mr. W. G. Ball 

Artificial Flowers 

Mrs. E. W. Goodwin 
Mrs. W. K. Hutchinson 
Mrs. Charles Keegan 
Miss Lillian Payne-Sills 

Tickets 

Mr. Warren Peirce 
Mr. Roger W. Homer 
Dr. Therese B. Thomas 
Miss Florence Hicks 
Mr. A. F. Crowley 

Ushering 

Mr. Frank V. Gordon 



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Mr. 
Mr. 
Mr. 
Mr. 



Mr. 
Mr. 
Mr. 



Warren A. Peirce 
Walter H. Peirce 
Herbert Rawson 
F. N. Young 
Harry Hayes 

Herbert Snow 
James O. Holt 
J. T. Foster 



Mrs. G. MacKay Richardson 
Dr. Therese B. Thomas 
Mrs. H. S. Teele 



Mr. Thomas Freeman 
Mr. E. W. Goodwin 
Mr. F. Emus 
Mr. F. W. Haven 
Mr. Gorham Davis 
Miss Dora Philpott 

Mr. George I. Cross 



Music 

Mrs. Arthur Saul Mrs. Ralph Mears Mrs. Chas. Devereaux 
Page twenty-eight 



Mrs. C. H. Hoxie 



Arlington Pageant : 1913 



Wm. W. Robertson 


H. E. Gamester 


Cabinet Maker 


Carpenter 


Upholsterer 


Builder 


Massachusetts Avenue 


Rear of Medford Street 


Arlington 


Arlington 


John D. Rosie 


N. J. Hardy 


Merchant Tailor 


Baker, Confectioner 


Post Office Building 


Caterer 


Arlington 


Arlington, Mass. 



Arlington Pageant : 1913 



Wiggin & Elwell 


Robinson &: Hendrick 


Bankers 


Real Estate 


and 




Brokers 


Mortgages, Insurance 


Exchange Building, Boston 


24 Post Office Building 
Arlington, Mass. 


Members of the Boston and New York 




Stock Exchanges 


Tel. Arlington 48 


Arlington Storage 


James O. Holt 


Kept free of insects by fumigating 


Groceries 


twice each year 


Provisions 


Inspection welcomed 


Agent for 




Spurr's Famous Revere Coffee 


Frost Insecticide Co. 






Nos. 12 and 14 Pleasant Street 


20 Mill Street 






Arlington, Mass. 


Arlington, Mass. 


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The 


Moxie 


Whittemore Pharmacy 


is the 


Mr. R. W. Murphy, Proprietor 




653 Massachusetts Avenue 


Standard Family Beverage 


Arlington 




Yerxa & Yerxa 


William Gratto 


Pure Food Products 


Painters' Supplies 


Table Luxuries 


Kitchen Furnishings, Hardware 


Groceries 


Real Estate, Insurance 


641 Massachusetts Avenue 


Builders' Hardware a Specialty 


Arlington 


665 Massachusetts Avenue 


Phone, 135-532-M 


Arlington 




Telephone Connection 



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Arlington - Belmont 


Foster Brothers 


Ice Company 


Designers, Carvers and Gilders of 


Prices to take effect April 1st, 1913, 


Picture and Looking-Glass 


and until further notice 


Frames 


25 lbs. at one delivery . . . lOcts. 




50 " " " " ... 20 " 


Sole Agents in the United States for the 


75 " " " " ... 80 " 


Medici Society of London, England 


__<« «< <« H A n li 


and 


100 ... 40 






Importers of Fine Etchings, 


From 200 lbs. and upward 


Engravings, Photographs, 


at one delivery, $5 cts. per cwt. 


Etc. 


Chopped Ice, per basket, 20 cts. 


4 Park Square, Boston, Mass. 


Drivers must not deviate from the above 




either in price or weight 






The Pageant 




is a history of the town from its earliest 




beginnings to the present time, told picto- 


Arthur W. Wood 


rially through a series of episodes that lend 




themselves to representation. 


Tax Free 




Investments 


In your family history 


19 Congress Street 
Boston 


Photographs 
are of great importance 




Be sure such records of the present 




are faithful, artistic and 




permanent 




The Litchfield Studio 




Arlington 



Arlington Pageant : 1913 



Menotomy Trust 
Company 

Arlington, Mass. 

Capital $125,000 Surplus, $12,500 

Deposits, $530,000 

James A. Bailey, Jr., President 
John A. Easton, Treasurer 
Warren A. Peirce, Vice-President 
J. E. Kimball, Vice-President 

We invite you 
to carry an account with us 

Your interests will be carefully guarded 

Why go elsewhere when we can 
give you the best of service ? 

Interest Allowed on Deposits 



DO YOU KNOW THAT 

R. W. Shattuck & Co. 

Arlington's Up-to-Date Hardware Store 



ARE EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR 



B £r ra JffleUotone 



Flat 
Colors 



" Soft as the Rainbow Tints " 



Mellotone will save you money when you figure 
cost of finishing or refinishing the walls of your 
house. 

It is better than wall paper, kalsomine or cheap 
finish, and most beautiful iu colors. 

It lasts a long time, may be washed and cleaned 
without injury, keeps its color. 

It is easily put on, and may be used on plaster, con- 
crete, metal, wood, burlap, old paper or any interior 
surface. 

Its colors are beautiful, soft, dull, and may be varied 
to suit your taste. The new fashionable colors are 
all there. 

It is being used on many of the handsomest build- 
ings. 

Painters are enthusiastic — it is j ust what they have 
been looking for. 

Mellotone carries the Lowe Brothers' " Little 
Blue Flag"— the emblem of quality and your pro- 
tection. 

It is like " High Standard " Paint — the best in the 
land. We have that and all the good Lowe Brothers' 
Products. Ask us for Color Card and suggestions for 
combinations. 



iHeUotone 



A. H. Knowles 

7 Mystic Street, Arlington 
Plumbing 

Steam, Hot Water, Furnace and 

Combination Heating and 

Repairs of Same 

Tin, Sheet Iron and General Job Work 
promptly attended to 



R. W. Le Baron 

Electrical Engineer and Contractor 

Specializes in Finished and New House 
Wiring. Estimates furnished 

Motors, Burglar Alarms, 

Telephones, Speaking Tubes, Etc. Installed 

Dealer in Electrical Supplies 

Pay Station Edison Electric 111. Company, Boston 

Repairs given prompt attention 

474 Massachusetts Avenue 
Arlington 

Telephone Connection 



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Arlington News Depot 




Frank E. Hammond 




Victor Talking Machines 


Russell & Fairfield 


Books, Newspapers, Magazines 


Insurance 


Circulating Library 


20 Kilby Street 


Laundry Agency 


Boston 


Stationery, Printing and Engraving 




Cigars and Tobacco 




Smokers' Articles 




639 Massachusetts Avenue 




Arlington, Mass. 






The Colonial Garage 




F. M. Chase, Proprietor 




Automobiles 


COMPLIMENTARY 


Stored, Cared For, Repaired, Renting 




Gasolene, Lubricating Oils 




Sundries 




Competent Chauffeurs Furnished 




743 Massachusetts Avenue 




Arlington, Mass. 




Tel. Arlington 919-M 



Arlington Pageant : 1913 



Alfred E. Myers 


C. W. Grossmith 


Jeweler, Silversmith and 


Registered Pharmacist 


Diamond Merchant 






Special attention given to the compounding 


Fine Watch and Jewelry Repairing 


of prescriptions 


Our Specialty 


Try our delicious Sodas and College Ices 


Registered Optometrists 


Ice Cream by quart, pint and gallon 
All flavors 


in charge of our Optical Department 






Massachusetts Ave. , cor. Mystic St. 


11 Hanover Street 


Arlington, Mass. 


Boston 




Walter K. Hutchinson 


W. W. Rawson 


Fancy Groceries and Provisions 


Florist and Decorator 


Farm Products 


Cut Flowers and Funeral Designs 


659 and 663 Massachusetts Ave. 


Plants of All Kinds in Season 


Arlington, Mass. 


Cooper Tavern Bldg. , Mass. Avenue 


BRANCH STORES I 


Arlington 


Cor. Mass. and Park Avenues, Arlington Heights 




553 Main Street, Winchester 




Telephone Connection 





Arlington Pageant : 1913 



William Whowell, Jr. 


J. Henry Hartwell &: Son 


Ladies' and Gentlemen's 


Mr. Chas. T. Hartwell 


Furnishings 


Undertakers 


671 Massachusetts Avenue 


4 Medford Street 


Arlington 


Arlington 


Telephone, 556-M 


Res. and Night Call, 792 Mass. Ave. 


H. A. Perham 


A. Bowman 


Prescription 


Ladies' and Gentlemen's 


Pharmacy 


Tailor 


Post Office Building 


487 Massachusetts Avenue 


Arlington 


Arlington 



Arlington Pageant : 1913 



Estabrook & Company 


Turner, Tucker & 


Bankers 


Company 


15 State Street 


Bankers 


Boston 


24 Milk Street 




Boston 


Frank V. Noyes & 




Company 


Peirce & Winn Company 


Insurance 


Mystic Street 


Thompson Square 


Arlington 


Charlestown 





Arlington Pageant : 1913 


Arlington Automobile 


William A. Muller &: 


Company 


Company 


450 Massachusetts Avenue 


Insurance 


Arlington 


18 Central Street 




Boston 




William Whytal & Son 




Grocers 


COMPLIMENTARY 


473 Massachusetts Avenue 




Arlington 



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